Estonian National Tartan Estonian District Tartan
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BGRGBKBKWKBKBKWKBK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6777
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2005 September The Estonian National Tartan designed by Kirsty Anderson of the MacNaughton Group, Perth. Organised by Shaw Marketing of Edinburgh (0131 557 5663) and to be launched during Estonian Week at the end of October. Colours taken from the Estonian national Flag.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2005 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Thread count
T/64 Y2 R6 Y2 T64 K10 T6 K4 W2 K4 T6 K106 T6 K4 W2 K4 T6 K/10
One full sett is 542 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #1870A4 #1870A4 | oklch(52.2% 0.113 241.2) |
| T | #2474E8 #2474E8 | oklch(57.8% 0.192 258.7) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s18/t32y1r3y1t32k5t3k2w1k2t3k53t3k2w1k2t3k5x2t2105244/